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<br>The sector employs 201,000 Chinese and 111,000 Filipinos, according to Leechiu’s data, which estimates POGOs deliver 190 billion pesos ($3.22 billion) to the economy each year, a boon to the property and retail sectors.<br><br>The TikToker has made multiple dishes – including two favorites: ‘spritz cookies’ and fudge –  and the baker even travels across the country to find recipes, going from state to state to recreate the best cemetery dessert. <br><br>Sept 27 (Reuters) – Space and Time, a decentralized data analytics platform, secured $20 million in funding from a group of investors led by Microsoft venture capital arm M12, valuing the company at $300 million.<br><br>On PC gaming platform Steam, Pkv Poker Cult of the Lamb has seen hundreds of thousands of downloads, and while Wilton can’t reveal the exact figures due to Massive Monster’s backing by UK-listed Devolver Digital, pre-sales numbers show the game has already recouped its investment costs.<br><br>MANILA, Sept 26 (Reuters) – The Philippines will stop operations of 175 offshore gambling firms and deport about 40,000 Chinese workers, a justice ministry official said on Monday, part of a crackdown on the notoriously opaque online gaming industry.<br><br>The POGOs targeted for closure had licenses that either expired or were revoked, for violations like non-payment of government fees, Clavano said, adding the deportation of the Chinese workers would start next month.<br><br>Real estate consultancy Leechiu Property Consultants estimates that a complete exit of the POGO industry would leave vacant 1.05 million square metres (259 acres) of office space – a third of the size of New York’s Central Park – and 8.9 billion pesos ($151 million) in foregone annual rent.<br><br>The company, which aims to run analytics on data stored on blockchain as well as outside of it for smart contracts, plans to use the funding to hire more engineers, said Nate Holiday, co-founder, Space and Time.<br><br>”There is massive amounts of data and use cases coming from blockchain technology’s multi-chain world, and insights and data from centralized data stores … and Space and Time sits at the bridge that links them,” Holiday said.<br>